great_tigers:HeartBurnKid: great_tigers: I wonder how many people buying these 180 dollar pair of shoes are on Medicaid...

You forgot to say, "I'm not racist, but..."

It isn't a race thing at all, you're the one that brought this up. It's a humanity and decency thing. My sister in law is white, on Medicaid and was just cut a check for 20,000 because she hasn't worked in the last four years. She went and bought a car off a lease. If you're on Medicaid I think that your disposable income should be spent on items that could help you get off from sucking the government, not buying 180 dollar pairs of shoes.

A lot of racist undercurrents, here. Yes, the people were black. Yes, the shoes are (by my standards at least) ugly and overpriced. But these were also American citizens (most likely) lining up to legally buy a product from an American business in an orderly fashion. Some guy who was most assuredly armed or was big enough to intimidate people to give over their money through brute force decided to rob people of their money.

Look... you don't want to get beaten or shot... don't threaten people with bodily harm unless they give you their belongings. You rob or loot, you deserve to get shot. I have absolutely no problem with this and will not accept any kind of sob story about it. I don't care if your kid has cancer and this is the only way in your dim mind to raise the money.

FormlessOne:Bzzzt! Wrong answer. Besides, why wait in line when I can just preorder my HTC and have it delivered to my friggin' house once it's available?

True for you I guess. But the fact that you're still dropping Brand names just kinda helps prove my point.

My point is every iproduct that launches has a line of thick-rim-glasses-wearing starbucks-sipping hipsters, lined up around the block ready to drop at least $400 on a device they already own with just a couple new features, so they won't look bad around the other hipsters at the coffee house. My point applies to the people that will be waiting in line for the Xboxone and PS4 as well

Some people get their gratification from Shoes, others get it from Electronics. Get over it.

akuma976:I'd bet Dollars to Donuts that half the people in this thread criticizing the people waiting in line for $180 shoes, will be waiting in line for the iphone 5s/6 or whatever the hell it's going to be.

Bzzzt! Wrong answer. Besides, why wait in line when I can just preorder my HTC and have it delivered to my friggin' house once it's available?

Waiting in line is what folks who don't have money, but do have time, do to get such items.

As an aside, it's interesting in that you have to be short on either money or time for it to matter. If you have both, or if you don't have both, you don't care. If you have money, but not time, then you have someone else do it for you; otherwise you have to do it yourself.